New Delhi, March 24, 2010 -- While computers that process data and software that power them separately create hundreds of thousands of jobs worldwide, the networking technologies that link the two together are often underestimated. The world's leading networking equipment company, Cisco Systems, estimates that India has a shortage of 70,000 professionals in networking. Cisco, which started out with routers and expanded into a range of switches and end-user gear such as conferencing systems, says an increasing trend to outsource IT infrastructure management will only widen the shortfall in the months to come.
Quality networking professionals are a rare species at the global level too. Globally, the shortage is as high as one million. Apart from maintaining switches and routers, networking experts also take care of security and risk management in data centres and employ "virtualisation" under which a job done by a machine can now be executed through software, enabling easier network management from remote locations. Network architecture, network design, unified communications and cloud computing would also be the trends over the next five years.
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